"They often shrug off the concerns of scientists who argue it’s inherently risky to fund the development of potentially dangerous technologies through wealthy investors who could only profit if the planet-cooling systems are deployed." www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Honored to have both of the features I wrote for Politico Magazine this year featured on its list of the top 25 stories of 2025. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“It would be definitely better if we lost all our money and this wasn’t necessary,” said a venture capitalist who's invested more than $1 million in a sunlight-limiting startup. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Scoop: Twelve, a big tech-backed sustainable aviation fuel startup, has laid off 170 employees in less than a year — a total that accounts for nearly half its workforce. The layoffs come as Trump-era tax changes have undercut its business model. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

NEW: Sequoia Capital and other top venture capital firms are backing startups developing risky tech to cool the planet — with unknown side effects. “These are trillion-dollar market opportunities,” one VC said. www.eenews.net/articles/betting-on-climate-failure-these-investors-could-earn-billions/

An epic energy markets tutorial: The vice chair of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition delivers a 49-post deconstruction of an op-ed that argued "liberals should support America's oil and gas industry."

Another parallel: Crazy Eddie "scammed, stole and pulled switcheroos: instructing employees to clean off display models or returned goods, for example, and rebox them as brand-new. Sales tax was routinely left unpaid. Warranty claims were fabricated." www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/b...

Nothing says "fusion energy is a viable business and there isn't a stock market bubble" like a $6 billion merger between a Big Tech-backed fusion company that hasn't built a commercial plant and the president's media and crypto firm that lost $55 million last quarter.

The huge bump in the stock price (+25%) strongly suggests investors had a very dim view of Truth Social ever turning a profit

"Frankly there’s not a lot of interest from the industry, in light of lower oil prices and more attractive fields globally," said one person familiar with the Trump administration's Venezuela pitch. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

A WSJ interview with Trump on the economy was interrupted multiple times by phone calls, including one from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, “who joined by speakerphone to discuss the administration’s plans for Washington, D.C., golf courses.” www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

A display at the late Minnesota House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman’s desk cropped up in the wake of her assassination. Leaders decided it should remain as a reminder of the impact of political violence.

Interesting profile of offshore wind's second-biggest critic, after President Trump. Now that he's helped devastate the industry in the U.S., Stevenson appears to be reconsidering his anti-wind advocacy.

Such a masterfully succinct and delightful little story comparing the number of press releases flying taxi startups put out versus the total hours the companies' vehicles have actually spent flying. sherwood.news/business/air...

Wild story about a potentially compromised senior Pentagon adviser — and the Trump administration's apparent efforts to quash the piece. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Coming soon: The Spanish-language Madrid Playbook. ¡Vamos POLITICO!

🚨☢️ "A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has found." www.politico.eu/article/cher...

Viktor Orban recently said "that in the future 70% of the Hungarian energy will be produced by nuclear and 30% by solar." At least on solar, Hungary is not far off from the prime minister's energy goal. singjupost.com/transcript-h...

When Tom Steyer ran for president, climate action was the centerpiece of his campaign. Now he doesn't mention it. "He ran for president to raise climate as an issue," an adviser said. "But he's running for governor of California to become governor of California." www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Describing an attraction that's outside the beltway as in Washington, D.C., seems like deceptive advertising. (Relatedly, it's a stretch to call Washington Dulles International Airport a Washington airport.)

Louisiana's governor claims without evidence that landowners challenging CO2 storage laws have been "hoodwinked by the radical left" and "manipulated into becoming the mouthpiece of the well known anti-oil and gas financiers Mike Bloomberg and George Soros" subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Zillow has removed climate risk scores from over a million real estate listings after realtors complained that information such as how at risk a home is from wildfires was causing them to lose sales. Zillow now provides a link to get the information instead of listing it directly.

Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well... Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov. We called the auditor. He resigned in August. That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks. 1/

The comments in parliament "came after a POLITICO investigation revealed an Israeli-U.S. company Stardust Solutions aimed to be capable of deploying solar radiation modification, as the technology is called, inside this decade." www.politico.eu/article/uk-n...

Next year, day passes will cost $100 per person for international visitors at the 11 most popular national parks: Acadia, Bryce Canyon, Everglades, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain, Sequoia & Kings Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Zion. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Sir, this is a Monday.

Nuclear reactor developer X-Energy closed a $700m funding round, bringing its total haul over the past 13 months to $1.4b, as it races to bring online a new reactor design and fulfill offtake agreements with Amazon, Dow etc. www.ft.com/content/59d9... 🔌💡

NEW: A billionaire-backed global cooling startup is a few years away from potentially seeding the stratosphere with sunlight-reflecting particles. This is the inside story of how Stardust is developing planet-altering tech that it hopes to sell to the US government. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

At least three Republican lawmakers took advantage of a decades-old rooftop solar credit that will end in January due to President Donald Trump’s megalaw, according to a review of property records and satellite imagery by POLITICO’s E&E News. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

S&P 500 returns Nov 1-Oct 31 ahead of mid-term elections? Bad. Avg -2.2%, median -3.5% (since 1962)

Lyft's 2016 projection vs Lyft's 2025 reality

How Switzerland lowered its tariffs: "The Swiss bar, given to Trump during the delegation's visit on Nov. 4, was stamped with 45 and 47 in homage to his presidential terms. It's worth a little more than $130,000." www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...

“At least three Republican lawmakers took advantage of a decades-old rooftop solar credit that will end in January due to President Donald Trump’s megalaw, according to a review of property records and satellite imagery by POLITICO’s E&E News.”

NEW: At least three GOP lawmakers took advantage of a decades-old rooftop solar credit that'll expire in January due to Trump’s megalaw, E&E News has found. They all support ending the perk that sliced thousands of dollars off the cost of installing their panels. www.eenews.net/articles/mee...

NEW: Trump’s crackdown on immigrant work visas is spurring a Wall Street hiring boom … *in India.* www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

He beat the wrap.

Holland & Knight has now acknowledged that it began working for Stardust on Jan. 8. The solar geoengineering startup's lobbying team includes former Rep. Ron Klein, a Democrat from Florida. lda.senate.gov/filings/publ...

Ten years after leaders adopted the landmark Paris climate agreement, it faces promise and peril. It doesn't help that one of its original advocates is now trying to tear it apart. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Scoop: Stardust Solutions, a startup seeking U.S. government contracts to cool the planet, has quietly begun lobbying on Capitol Hill. "We're informing members of Congress about our work and the need for appropriate and robust oversight," the CEO said. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

The fact that Democrats won both elections yesterday for the Georgia Public Service Commission is remarkable enough (no Democrat had won a non-federal statewide race in GA since 2006). But both won by a margin of 63% to 37%. In Georgia. results.sos.ga.gov/results/publ...

In an op-ed for TR, @davidkeith.bsky.social & @danvisioni.bsky.social voice deep concerns about Stardust & other for-profits racing into solar geoengineering — and asserting claims that, they argue, the science doesn't support.

“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” said a 29 year-old Republican woman looking for love in DC. “And I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

AI agents tried to do graphic design, video editing, game development, and administrative chores like scraping data. "Even the best could perform less than 3 percent of the work, earning $1,810 out of a possible $143,991," writes @willknight.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

The idea that Bowdoin College is one of many schools that have become "feckless workshops for leftist political orthodoxy" because it offers a degree in Africana studies is belied by the data. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u... Nearly all of the top major at Bowdoin are related to finance or science.

The chief of staff of Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) lives in central Virginia, 190 miles from the Capitol. Marshall has previously sponsored legislation to curtail federal employees' ability to work remotely. "I'm against teleworking from home," he said last year. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...